...A day late and a dollar short If something is a day late and a dollar short, it is too little, too late. All bets are off If all bets are off, then agreements that have been made no longer apply. All hat, no cattle When someone talks big, but cannot back it up, they are all hat, no cattle.('Big hat, no cattle' is also used.) All over Hell's half acre If you have been all over Hell's half acre, you have been traveling and visiting many more places than originally intended, usually because you were unsuccessful in finding what you were looking for. It can also be used to mean everywhere. All over the map If something like a discussion is all over the map, it doesn't stick to the main topic and goes off on tangents. Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades Used in response to someone saying "almost" in a win/lose situation. The full expression is "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." An alternate form puts "and flinging shit from a shovel" at the end. Armchair quarterback An armchair quarterback is someone who offers advice, especially about football, but never shows that they could actually do any better. As mad as a wrongly shot hog If someone is as mad as a wrongly shot hog, they are very angry. (Same as, Angry as a bear or Angry as a bull). As rare as hen's teeth Something that is rare as hen's teeth is very rare or non-existent. At a drop of a dime If someone will do something at the drop of a dime, they will do it instantly, without...
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...warfare. Tobias proves his intelligence when he gives Tris, his girlfriend, an ultimatum. She continuously throws herself into situations where she acts recklessly by risking her life and Tobias will have none of it. He grows so tired of her behaviour that he says to her, “You are a sixteen-year-old girl who doesn’t understand that the value of a sacrifice lies in its necessity, not in throwing your life away! And if you do that again, you and I are done” (260). Tobias is able to identify the signs of someone who can potentially hurt him. He knows that if something awful happens to Tris, he will be affected as well, so in order to prevent himself from possible heartbreak, he warns his girlfriend. The fact that he sees value in life shows his intelligence. Tobias’ actions toward his partner also exhibit that he has an affectionate side. He cares enough about her that he is willing to subtly threaten her if she does not stop trying to destroy herself. Tobias constantly tells Tris how much she means to him and performs a series of romantic gestures. As the two of them get ready for combat, Tris tells Tobias that she is unable to fire a weapon, but all he says back to her is, “Hey. You have done more for this faction than any other person. You...you’re the bravest person I’ve ever met. Stay here. Let yourself mend” (424). Without asking any questions, he takes his girlfriend’s feelings into consideration and informs her that she can relax in the house and not have to worry about going...
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...Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine: Summary & Analysis Dandelion wine was a story about a twelve-year old boy named, Douglas Spaulding. Douglas was just a typical twelve year old boy, who lived to play, run around and do what any other twelve year old would do. Not a very physically fit person, but it didn’t really seem to matter. He was a person who got what he wanted, not by whining for it, but by keeping his mind on whatever he wanted and setting out a goal for it. He was a happy boy and not many problems, till now, and he had a younger brother named Tom. Tom Spaulding, age ten, did what other little brothers like to do, tag along with his older brother. He was never in the way of his older brother; in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly, writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his first that. Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because...
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...Laxmi Shakya Ms. Tuley English 90 26 June, 2012 Something That I Should Be Trying To Do Without There will be no future if no one tires new things no more. Human beings would not go this far without trying new things. Our ancestors had done so much in doing so; they made tools for hunting, created communication languages and introduced many other techniques that we are still using today. All of these were the things that they tried. Without their hard trying, we would still eat raw meat even at this time. Firstly, we should be trying to do something new without any fear. People say that they don’t like to try new things because sometimes, they could be risky. But the fact is that we may get hurt even when we keep staying at the same spot. So, it’s better to try even if we failed or got hurt, as long as we are still ok, we have gained some experiences out of trying them. Change and new experience provides us a meaningful life because, when we adapt to the change and new environments, we must face the difficulties and try our best to overcome them. This process not only builds our personality but also gives us a n exciting and meaningful life. Therefore, we should be trying to do something new without any fear to make life valuable. Secondly, we should try to do something that we do not enjoy. It is the truth that not all the people can do the things they life all the time. The fact is that people have to do something they dislike when pursing their goals or realizing their...
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...It is easy to say something is hard to do if you never tried doing it. This saying hits home for me because there was a time I thought I could not play sports or thought that it would be a struggle because I had asthma. After beating myself up over not having the courage to try, my friends encouraged me to try out for basketball. When starting out it was a little hard to run and bounce the ball at the same time, it took even more energy and effort to shoot the ball. This did not help in keeping my spirit high. I felt defeated and stopped trying. While feeling bad about not being good right away I remembered what my mom told me “Everything does not come easy, you have to work for it”. This made me feel better and I practiced every day after school until I learned how to play the game. Now basketball is my favourite sport, if I had not tried it wouldn’t have been possible for me to brag about my accomplishments today. If you do not try to do something, you will never know if you are good at it. Confidence is the key when it comes to trying something new. Don’t be a failure by thinking you cannot do something or not even try. When making a mistake, try harder the next time and it will eventually become easy. You will be very happy and pleases with yourself when you try to do something and succeed. When attempting to do something put in the effort so you can be the best at it. I have learned that not trying is worst than trying and failing. I have so much...
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...Distributive bargaining is the approach to bargaining or negotiation that is used when the parties are trying to divide something up--distribute something. It contrasts with integrative bargaining in which the parties are trying to make more of something. This is most commonly explained in terms of a pie. Disputants can work together to make the pie bigger, so there is enough for both of them to have as much as they want, or they can focus on cutting the pie up, trying to get as much as they can for themselves. In general, integrative bargaining tends to be more cooperative, and distributive bargaining more competitive. Common tactics include trying to gain an advantage by insisting on negotiating on one's own home ground; having more negotiators than the other side, using tricks and deception to try to get the other side to concede more than you concede; making threats or issuing ultimatums; generally trying to force the other side to give in by overpowering them or outsmarting them, not by discussing the problem as an equal (as is done in integrative bargaining). The goal in distributive bargaining is not to assure both sides win, but rather that one side (your side) wins as much as it can, which generally means that the other side will lose, or at least get less than it had wanted. (Distributive bargaining tactics rarely assume the pie will divided in half.) Often these approaches to negotiation are framed as incompatible. Fisher, Ury, and Patton, authors of the negotiation...
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...Define distributive bargaining. Distributive bargaining is the approach to bargaining or negotiation that is used when the parties are trying to divide something up--distribute something. It contrasts with integrative bargaining in which the parties are trying to make more of something. This is most commonly explained in terms of a pie. Disputants can work together to make the pie bigger, so there is enough for both of them to have as much as they want, or they can focus on cutting the pie up, trying to get as much as they can for themselves. In general, integrative bargaining tends to be more cooperative, and distributive bargaining more competitive. Common tactics include trying to gain an advantage by insisting on negotiating on one's own home ground; having more negotiators than the other side, using tricks and deception to try to get the other side to concede more than you concede; making threats or issuing ultimatums; generally trying to force the other side to give in by overpowering them or outsmarting them, not by discussing the problem as an equal (as is done in integrative bargaining). The goal in distributive bargaining is not to assure both sides win, but rather that one side (your side) wins as much as it can, which generally means that the other side will lose, or at least get less than it had wanted. (Distributive bargaining tactics rarely assume the pie will divided in half.) Often these approaches to negotiation are framed...
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...My creative side is that I tend to do everything a little bit different then everyone else or how it is supposed to be done. I can take an extremely weird or random objects and turn them into something functional that I am able to use. I always try to think of something extraordinary and one of a kind. My father and grand father have a company so I am always with them helping them trying to get things to work and they love having me and my crazy ideas around. Especially when they are having a difficult time trying to get something to work because ill go find some parts laying around and ill figure out some way to make some extraordinary out of it. I tend to allow myself to calm myself down and relax when something is not going my way, so I...
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...different ideas come to mind. Success plays a major role in the real world today. People can be successful in life by always putting in good effort at the goals they are trying to reach. Sometimes you will fail at trying to be successful, but you cannot take failure as an option. Success is fulfilling all your goals that you have set out for yourself. Success is also the process in which you are doing a task to receive a positive result in your works. When becoming successful you will face a lot of different obstacles, but you will always have to stay focus on your goals. Success sometimes cannot be easy at achieving. You have to work hard at every goal you want to accomplish. It can get difficult at times, but you should never quit or take failure as an option. Success is in the mind of individuals that want to be something in life. People spend majority of their lives trying to become successful. Throughout certain people childhoods their parents always told them that success is the key to a happy lifestyle. Many people have different interpretations on success. Some people may think it is not good to be successful. Then certain people think that by being successful they are living a good life. Success can only be achieved if a person believes that they have the ability to be successful. Success is something you have to fight and strive for. It will not come to you if you do not put in effort to achieve it. Majority of people have their own opinion on success. To me success...
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...The Yellow Wallpaper, is about a woman that is trying to escape the man orient society that she is living in. So, during the summer he husband has rented this "colonial mansion, of romantic felicity,"(594) for the summer trying to get his wife over this "temporary nervous depression,"(595) and feels that fresh air will do her some good. She wanted to say down stairs but he feels that upstairs is a better idea that they stay up stairs. This is showing that men rule the world and whatever they say goes. So, they up stirs they are staying in this "big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, windows that looks all ways, and air and sunshine glory," (595), because the husband feels that sunlight and fresh air will do his wife some good and help her get back to normal health faster. Because during this time period the woman wasn't really aloud to get sick and her main job was to take care of the house and children and this shows that she has lacked her position of the wife all because her husband does not trust his wife, at this point at time. All the wife wants is husbands to understand her and see her for who she is and he just ignores her and not worry herself with any problems and that her main goal in life right now is get better. The room that they are staying in has bars on the all the windows, there is this dull colored wallpaper that is hung in sections on the wall and the bed is nailed to floor. The husband leaves his wife in this room all day and there isn't much that she...
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...that time and money on to make them happier. Also, just because someone has everything a person could ever want does not make them happy. When people have all the money they need, I would think that would make life rather boring, not being able to work towards something because everyone has what they want. It’s all about making life worth living, because if people don’t have something to live for it makes every day seem like there is nothing left in life. For Instance, the perfect example of having everything is celebrities, a lot of celebrities have lots of money, and they run out of things to do. Sometimes having nothing to do pushes celebrities’ to do drugs and other dangerous lifestyles to make their lives worth living. Which is sad because how many people can say that they would kill to have that much money. But in reality it’s not the money but people’s...
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...influencing him to addictive things. He was forced to make decision whether he should listen to his friends or think about what would his family would think of him. The story teaches a lesson that instead of rushing on something, perhaps think through it before you commit to it. Author uses emotional appeals to shape the story. Author implies on the story that many falls under the victim of drugs and addictive things, influenced by their friends but they can oppose and stay away from them....
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...learn, adapt, and solve them over the course of time. This is what ultimately molds us into the person we become. #3. Stop lying to yourself. – You can lie to anyone else in the world, but you can’t lie to yourself. Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves. aberrantbeauty.tumblr.com #4. Stop putting your own needs on the back burner. – The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Yes, help others; but help yourself too. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now. pinterest #5. Stop trying to be someone you’re not. – One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that’s trying to make you like everyone else. Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you. Don’t...
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...Civil disobedience is not always persuaded by the wrong group of people. Yet, they are the ones who get punished for the actions of trying to make the world a better place while the bad ones don’t get punished. In the article “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” By Howard Zinn, the author explains all the reasons on why civil disobedience is the problem. The allusion of the title meaning is that the problem is civil disobedience not with the people that are disobedient. The meaning to the reference is that not all people that are disobedient are bad and to punish them for something they believe in is wrong. Especially, when the ones who are obedient can be the ones who are really harming the world and not being punished for it. In the article...
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...this one. This play was mostly about this guy trying to pursue this woman, and he starts off badly a few times so a bell is rung for him to begin again. This one had a lot of humorous moments in it. They were both very funny, especially the guy. I think they had a mutual like towards each other and it led them to go on a date to the movies. In the end, what he was trying to pursue, he finally got, but it just wasn’t the right timing for him in when her first attempted to ask her on a date. He also had to change up his conversation so it could be more respectable to the girl Betty. The second play was not as exciting as the first. I do not think it was as funny as the first one also because it was not as exciting to watch also. It involved one character, which was Mitch, he was talking to the crowd about a type writer, but comes to the conclusion that he is a typewriter himself, In this play he is trying to pursue something himself also, but I feel like he doesn’t know how to pursue this certain something. This something turns out to be a piece of paper, and in the end he exchanges names with this piece of paper. The difference between this play and that play is that he wasn’t trying to pursue this something at first until he seen it after explaining to the audience on how he is a typewriter. The third play “Foreplay, or the Art of the Fugue” was similar to the other three because it consisted of a pursuit also. Three guys are trying to run game on these girls so they can end...
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